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The Charlie Kirk assassination was done by a professional. The video image being seared into everyone’s brain is what John Robb calls an “empathy trigger”, not dissimilar to the response to George Floyd. The who and why are likely deeper and darker than our pay grade allows. It sure seems that this moment in time will cascade and compound along a bumpy road ahead.

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200 yards is BELOW the lowest range Israeli defence snipers train on. Anyone with a decent rifle and some target practice could have made that shot. > At the range the snipers shot targets from 300, 400, 500, 600, and 800 meters in both the prone and standing positions. The U.S. snipers sent rounds downrange using the M110-SASS and the Israeli snipers used the SR25-CARBINE.
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US and Israeli snipers send rounds downrange
GRAFENWOEHR TRAINING AREA, Germany – Snipers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 34th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Divi...
I disable autoplay on all clients. It's enough to build up a picture from words that my fellow plebs are using, and to see the odd photo. You're right about empathy triggers, and I don't need to waste mine on things that didn't happen right in front of me. I've seen tragedy up close and it's enough to be dealing with my portion over my lifetime. I understand the scale and implication of the event, and the background and complexity surrounding it. I have sympathy for the family and respect for the lifework of the deceased. I share the universal call for justice and understand the deepening rift in society between those who want to build civilization and those who find pleasure destroying it. But I don't need to become a voyeur of other people's suffering just because the black mirror in my hand wasn't restrained enough to interrupt my day and serve it cold to my face. Shortly followed by a meme or two, cementing the banality of it all to my already overloaded brain. I hit this point during the pandemic nonsense, and again during peak eurowar, and most recently with peak ziowar. Empathy, like attention, needs to be guarded as a precious resource, something to be denied to the machine. Sometimes, less is more.